Appeal 2007-0223
Application 09/752,090
(3)
Appellants acknowledge that the Examiner has combined Gervais
with Aycock for its teaching the Web-based user interface and shared data
repository (Br. 12). It is argued that "[b]ecause Aycock does not disclose
the limitations indicated above with respect to claims 44, 66, and 77-79,
Gervais can not cure the deficiencies therein" (Br. 12). Thus, Appellants do
not contest the combination with Gervais.
It is noted that Aycock discloses a network based system in Figure 2,
but does not disclose that the network is the "Web." We agree with the
Examiner that one of ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to
use a "Web" based system even without a reference because it was
notoriously well-known to conduct business and communication on the
World Wide Web of the Internet. Both the supplier and the buyer have user
interfaces (Figure 6 for supplier; col. 10, ll. 23-25 for the buyer).
Nevertheless, Gervais expressly discloses a Web-based user interface and
one skilled in the art would have been motivated to use a Web-based
interface as taught by Gervais for the network-based interface in Aycock
because of the widespread usage of the Internet and World Wide Web.
As noted in section (2), since the suppliers and the buyer have access
to the evaluation system databases (col. 9, ll. 13-17; col. 10, ll. 62-67), the
databases can be considered a "shared data repository" for the collaboration
system.
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